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Interviews and Publications

2010: Governance for Sustainable Development:
As if it Mattered?

View the videos from some of the leading thinkers across the country, community dialogue hosted at Royal Roads University, January 27, 2007.

Dr. Art Hanson The bio-economic imperative	Dr. John Robinson The climate change imperative


Vicky Husband The ecological imperative	Joe Van Bellenghem The business imperative

Perspectives on Governance
for Sustainable Community Development

Watch the videos from the meeting of leading sustainable development scholars, mentors and Fellows from the Trudeau Foundation.

Monique Begin, Trudeau Mentor What is the most important challenge in the issue of Canadian sustainable development?	Ann Dale, Trudeau Fellow How do we translate research into practice? What is the most important thing we can do for the environment or sustainable development?

Alain Desire Nimubona, Trudeau Scholar Quelles actions devraient etre prises pour attendre des objectifs en developpement durable?	Jason Luckerhoff, Trudeau Scholar Dans une perspective communicationnelle, pouvez-vous nous dire quelles sont les difficultees rencontrees en vue d'atteindre les differents publics au sujet des problemes environnementaux?

To view other videos or to see the report, go to www.trudeaufoundation.ca

What is Sustainable Community?

A discussion on sustainable community development in Canada with Elizabeth May, former Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada and Ann Dale, CRC Chair, and Trudeau Fellow.

Sustainable Communities

Communication

Governance

Social Change

An informal conversation with Yuill Herbert

Ann Dale, Principal Investigator, in an informal conversation with Yuill Herbert, CRC Board Member and community activist. This 33 minute dialogue discusses wide ranging topics such as the meaning of community, governance and civil society, institutional change and finally, social change.

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United We Can, Downtown Eastside Vancouver

Led by Ken Lyotier, this street charity’s first business was the United We Can Bottle Deposit which opened in January 1995. It now serves thousands of inner city residents every month and recycles millions of containers each year. The depot has generated 24 full time jobs for people, many of whom have multiple barriers to re-entering the workforce. It has also generated millions of dollars into the local economy via refunds on returned empties. Operating costs are covered with handling fees paid by the industry.

Agency

Space, Economics & Community

Barriers

Creating United We Can

Leadership


From Crises to Hope: Building Just and Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Community Development: A Vision for the Future
	A presentation by Ann Dale, delivered to at the Parkland Institute Fall Conference, 16th to 18th November 2007. This presentation needs to be viewed as a slide show.

Building Sustainable Communities

Critical Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities and Social Agency, Social Capital and Sustainable Communities

Two presentations delivered at the Fresh Outlook Foundation's Building Sustainable Communities conference in Kelowna November 20th to 22nd, 2007.
	Critical Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities Examines the measures communities should take to ensure their infrastructure is developed in a sustainable manner.
	Social Capital, Social Agency and Sustainability Examines preliminary results from the Community Liveability Survey.


Planning Tool
	What does an Integrated community sustainability plan look like? Uniquely designed to assist small and medium-sized communities.

Community Research Connections Newsletters

News from Dr. Ann Dale's Community Research Connections Team
February 2008	November 2007 October 2007 June 2007 March 2007


Sustainable Infrastructure Report
	Introducing the final report for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Infrastructure Canada funded project examining the ability of Canadian communities to redirect their existing infrastructure to more sustainable forms.

Community Research Connections
Discussion Paper Series

Direct Marketing in Canada Number 1

Direct farm marketers are a unique business model, in that they are on the front line of implementing sustainable community development.

The Sustainability Imperative Number 2

A preliminary investigation into sustainable communities in Canada

Social Capital, Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth Number 3

A preliminary investigation into sustainable communities in Canada Part 2

Thoughtleader Series

The Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network has launched its new Thoughtleader Series which includes articles by five of Canada's leading thinkers on their views of the issues, needs and gaps in funding.

Read the latest paper just released, by Ann Dale.
PDF - English | PDF - French


Linking Industry and Ecology
	It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such a union is crucial. How else are we to make the industries that are so central to modern societies consistent with our visions of a sustainable future?

A Dynamic Balance - Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development

A Dynamic Balance is a timely and provocative call for reconciliation and reconnection within and between communities. It makes unique links between two schools of thought, social capital and sustainable community development, showing how both are interdependent and can be mobilized by governments for greater agency in communities everywhere.

Looking at case studies in both Australia and Canada, it draws upon lessons that can be learned to reconnect large urban centres and smaller communities.